GRNLND Chapter 2: Mount Doom
‘The long haul is done. I am very proud of us both. We have pushed so hard to make it here, but if we want to climb one of these […]
Tag Archives: snow
Rocks for a Mattress
It felt very fine to be lining up for another adventure, this one to Chamonix with the aim of summiting the highest mountain in Western Europe: Mont Blanc. On this […]
Oscar II Land
Back when I first arrived on Svalbard in 2010, we had a saying: “The sun always shines in Oscar II Land.” Looking out across Isfjord from its Southerly coast, it […]
Newtontoppen
After 10 days spent in the field, I have returned to the relative civilisation of the world’s Northernmost town to hear devastating news. The Sex Panther, my heroic leopard-print snow-mobile, […]
Starlight
Yesterday, I took advantage of the freedom granted by having a snow mobile and took a day-trip to Barentsburg. It took us 8 days to get there and back on […]
Sex Panther
So I’ve succumbed to my rather less mature side and bought a snow-mobile. This was certainly not part of the plan for this year, but for the grand price of […]
Living on Borrowed Warmth
We have at last acquired a stove for our tent. It is not the one we ordered (DHL claims delivery is quite impossible but appear to be wilting under a […]
Life in the Freezer
We’re back in Svalbard. After a six week hiatus in England (which appeared to be mostly underwater) and a rather underwhelming November spent in the town of Alta, Northern Norway, […]
The Dark Time
I write from a university cafeteria in Alta, Northern Norway. The dark-time has descended upon Svalbard, with the impending winter beginning to make its presence felt through cold that bites […]
Barentsburg and Back – The Russian Coast
Myself and my fellow students have just returned from an epic eight-day trek to Barentsburg; a Russian mining settlement on Svalbard’s West Coast. This was a hard expedition. Travelling 150km […]
The Cold Edge 